"The Big Comfy Couch" children's television program.....

OTM (tho I thankfully don't have to watch it anymore). Ditto for the Dootlebobs.

I ended up shaking Barney's hand once!

I was holding Amber (age three at the time) up to see, he went round the audience shaking kids' hands, and grabbed mine also. Afterwards, Amber seemed bemused: "His hand felt like a man's!"

is BCC on PBS sprout? i think i saw that chick with a big orange starfish in a sprout promo.

my kid is exclusively Wonderpets (Nick Jr)

thats not true, actually. she also has a pretty intense love/hate relationship with elmo.

I always think the stars of those children's shows must hate kids and be so bitter and angry. Like Eddie Murphy's Gumby on SNL.

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Wld bone Steve.

Oh, now I feel bad. Steve Burns -- of Blues Clues -- is one of the few children's show hosts that I liked. I curse his replacement, tho (plastic cyborg Joe).

yeah comfy couch is fucking freaky and weird...stilted and awkward, that clown has the worst tone in her voice, wavering like a woman on a cocktail of antipsychotics. everything weird about this show was cleared up for me when I realized it was Canadian.

See, it's NOT just me being a cranky old fuck, then.

everything weird about this show was cleared up for me when I realized it was Canadian.

lol the comfy couch even creeped out my kid. the clown's sidekick, sort of a post-hippie mr. greenjeans, acted suspiciously like a mime. the show seemed weirdly out of time ten years ago, i'm amazed it's still on. also strange is the canadian kids show about tugboats narrated by denny doherty of the mamas & papas.

Oh, now I feel bad. Steve Burns -- of Blues Clues -- is one of the few children's show hosts that I liked. I curse his replacement, tho (plastic cyborg Joe).

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i guess i was childless when steve was on. yeah i've seen a rerun or two with him on, still seems like a douche. but this Joe -- wow. you have to watch his facial tics and gesticulations. it's bizarre how much he overemotes with nonverbal cues. it's like he's a deaf-mute on coke trying to join in on a conversation.

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I cannot hate the big comfy couch because I once babysat a kid who really enjoyed it. It was his favorite time of day, hanging out with the big comfy couch people. I cannot hate on stuff that brings kids visible joy.

that's why I relented on barney, of all things

comfy couch is blacklisted in our house, along with barney. steve-era blue's clues is fine. love jack's big music show. kid's current fave is pingu, which is pretty great.

(we seem to finally be over teletubbies and boobah, which are both too weird for me to hate them but i don't miss them)

(you should try the Teletubbies album. It ends up with Mike Oldfield style mood pieces, and a Tom Waits style lullabye!)

of all things, sesame street has been really annoying me. the voices of all new muppets (all post-elmo muppets, like rosita, abby cadabby, zoe) are screechy and high pitched and drive me up the fucking wall. I'm sure they speak this way because someone discovered children respond better to voices in that pitch range, but they make me was to drive icepicks into my ears

Comfy Couch is alright. They have a character called Auntie Macassar, a pun I did not get for years because the kind of furniture I use is called "milk crates."

Actually this show has the only clowns in the world that aren't completely asphyxiating to look at.

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comfy couch is blacklisted in our house, along with barney. steve-era blue's clues is fine. love jack's big music show. kid's current fave is pingu, which is pretty great.

Barney is STRICTLY VERBOTTEN. "Sesame Street" is fine. "Yo Gabba Gabba" gives me a fucking migraine. "Wah Wah Wubzy" makes me want to Slau-Slau-Slaughter. I don't mind "Little Bear" and "Franklin." "The Upside Down Show" is fairly entertaining. "Blue's Clue" (original dude, not that new fucker) is fine.

I love "Oswald" -- music by the Lurie Brothers (of Lounge Lizards fame).

"Dora" can't fall into a well soon enough, and "Diego" should be flayed alive by famished condors and rabid jaguars

"Dora" can't fall into a well soon enough, and "Diego" should be flayed alive by famished condors and rabid jaguars

^^^ YES

weird, i don't think we have the Big Comfy Couch out here in LA. the one i can't stand is It's A Big Big World.

"Dora" can't fall into a well soon enough

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the one i can't stand is It's A Big Big World.

that's a sweet show! with the stoner sloth or whatever and the meth-head monkey! the songs are nice and the whole thing is placid and peaceful, like xanax

It's way too new agey. OSWALD is the business.

oh god I'm never having children

At just this minute, I may have to reconsider whether The Big Comfy Couch is so bad. . . My 7-year old girl just asked if she could watch High-School Musical. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

All these programmes and movies are great you miserable curmudgeons.

clearly we are not of the "NO TV EVER" parenting crowd

All these programmes and movies are great you miserable curmudgeons.

You lie. High School Musical 2 is unwatchably horrible.

clearly we are not of the "NO TV EVER" parenting crowd

i'm preparing him to cope with a media-saturated world. is what i say to myself.

also i had really restricted tv viewing as a child, and while this probably led me to spend more time outdoors having imaginary swordfights i can't say that it made me any smarter than my friends who grew up watching 5 hours a day.

My daughter watches only a little TV. Most of her "screen time" is with a select handful of DVDs. Today's experiment, High School Musical 2, will not be selected for repeat viewings, trust me.

I ordered these for my library the other day, among others: Aristocats, Smurfs, George of the Jungle . . . along with a liberal smattering of Doras, Baby Einsteins, Backyardigans, and some Transformers (which is really the pits!!) Transformers is like a violent speed-freak Hollywood action movie for tots.

Kids love Dora so much. We have a section of the library where her books are (cheap paperbacks) and the kids zone in on them immediately. Even the older kids are drawn to that section with a sort of nostalgic glee. I want to order Pingu's! I haven't seen them for sale.

clearly we are not of the "NO TV EVER" parenting crowd

That's a hard road to travel.